Hiding sadness to sustain the home: psychosocial effects on female who seek disappeared people in Guanajuato state

Abstract

This document offers a set of reflections on the psychosocial effects generated in women who, after the disappearance of a loved one, take on the caregiving tasks for girls, boys, and adolescents, related by kinship to the missing person. To do so, we recover the results of a diagnosis carried out in 2023 by the Social and Forensic Anthropology Research Group in collaboration with the Buscadoras Guanajuato collective. We based our work on dialogical methodologies to generate spaces of trust in which the participants shared their feelings and reflections around their triple shift: caregiving tasks; forensics search, and working time. Finally, we highlight the importance of comprehensively recognizing and guaranteeing the search of disappeared people as a human right, as determinated in the General Law in the subjet.